Khimera: Puzzle Island (2020)

Suits & Sandals

PC (Microsoft Windows)

3.86 from 7 ratings

37 members have it in their collection · 19 backlogged

How long? · 100% 23h (from 2 logged playthroughs)

Chelshia is back in her most (only) puzzling adventure yet! In this brand-new story, Chelshia, Amelia and Bernadette arrive on the uncharted, uninhabited Hanji Isle to track down the four ancient (and expensive) tablet pieces. Take on a plethora of nonograms in Story Mode and learn the secrets of Hanji Isle or complete nonograms on a grid to build larger pictures in Mosaic Mode!
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Details

Developers
Suits & Sandals
Publishers
Suits & Sandals
Genres
Adventure, Indie, Puzzle
Themes
Comedy
Series
Khimera
Steam
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Release dates

  • Nov 29, 2020 (Full Release) (Worldwide) PC (Microsoft Windows)
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Rating distribution

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Trost

Review Trost 3/5 · Aug 6, 2025

RIP the mystery of Picross

I used to love nonograms, because I didn't know all of the tricks abd was solving them with a mix of deduction, guessing combined with trial and error.

This game taught me algorithms that allow me to solve any Picross puzzle without guessing. This sounds like a good thing, but now they're not challenging me and therefore lost my interest. …

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I used to love nonograms, because I didn't know all of the tricks abd was solving them with a mix of deduction, guessing combined with trial and error.

This game taught me algorithms that allow me to solve any Picross puzzle without guessing. This sounds like a good thing, but now they're not challenging me and therefore lost my interest. They became a chore.

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EugThinks

Review EugThinks 5/5 · Apr 5, 2024

Cute nonogram game

Good nonogram game with a lot of puzzles (regular and mosaic) and cute presentation. I didn't play their previous free platformer that this takes characters and such from, but I enjoyed it anyway... silly little story with silly dialogue, good stuff. The nonogram stuff itself was quite good with two very minor/iffy problems:

One, there were three or four puzzles …

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Good nonogram game with a lot of puzzles (regular and mosaic) and cute presentation. I didn't play their previous free platformer that this takes characters and such from, but I enjoyed it anyway... silly little story with silly dialogue, good stuff. The nonogram stuff itself was quite good with two very minor/iffy problems:

One, there were three or four puzzles where I got to what seemed to be a 50/50 guess situation. It's possible I just didn't see an available clue, though I've done enough nonograms that I don't think that's the case. But even so, it's a pretty minor issue... pretty much every nonogram thing I've played has it happen at least once.

Two, the clue-greying-out system greys out a number even if you don't actually know which one it is--e.g. if you have three 2s in a line and you get the last one, it will grey out the last 2 even if there's still space for another possible 2 afterward. This way you get extra information that makes it easier. But I think that's just a matter of taste/difficulty rather than an objective problem, so whatever.

I guess there is one final thing that's subjective to me: I don't like time pressure, and each of the standard puzzles (not mosaics) does have a medal system for completion under certain times. But again that's a me-specific thing, and what you get for time completion is pretty inconsequential: currency for hint items (that I never used except after finishing all the puzzles, to get achievements) and cosmetics, and achievements. And I guess I'm pretty fast anyway, since I completed every puzzle with around 1/3-1/2 the gold completion time without thinking about it. The game also gives you the option to hide the timer, which I think every nonogram game should have. The final standard level is a time attack thing that I hated, but having just one of those things in the game is not something I'll ding the whole game for.

So all in all, great game if you like nonogram puzzles, as I do.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and I liked the music a lot! In particular there was this one song with a little glitchy pause drop (I dunno the right terms) that grew on me a lot. That song also had like a pseudo-vocal screamy effect that my brain interpreted as someone yelling "YOU'RE A REALLY GREAT GUY" repeatedly, so that was fun. :D

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tylerisrandom

Review tylerisrandom 4/5 · Jan 14, 2024

A nice little indie nonogram/picross game. I haven't played the platform game it's based on, but I still found the short cut scenes between levels pretty cute. Worked well on Steam Deck if you remember to move the cursor (as the "A" button fires a mouse click and it'll hover a back button by default).